Originally Posted by
LaxtonLad
This will be a proper test of how our defenders can cope with a confident team that's on a winning run. Quite a few posters and footie "experts" are saying how we ought to be playing better than we are doing and why, with the players we have, are we underperforming? Last week going 2 down to Hartlepool before recovering shows just how vulnerable and unreliable our defence is, not can be, IS.
Nice chap and thorough though he seems to be, Ardley also seems incapable of injecting a "kill the b@stards off" mentality among this fragile group. Yellow and red cards received are not a badge of honour, or toughness, if you like, they show misdirected aggression, clumsiness and panic, not dominance.